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the tea-pot reveals it. Demand always the genuine
"Salads" in the sealed aluminum packet, and see
that_youu get_ it, if you want that unique flavour ol:
fresh, clean leaves properly prepared and packed.
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Groundnut Macaroons.—In parts of
the South, from which this receipt,
conies, peanuts 'are known as ground-
nuts. Grind in a meat chopper enough
nuts to fill a pint measure. Beat' the
whites of two eggs stiff and dry. Add
a pint of pulverized 'sugar and the
chopped nuts;; rub the whole together
thoroughly, then spread the mixture
on tin sheets, not buttered, and bake
it to a -delicate brown in a slow oven.
Cut it im'o squares, and serve them
eitherhot or cold.
An Irish Receipt for Potato Cakes
—Boil the potatoes thoroughly, mash
and season them with salt, moisten
them with milk, work into them all
the flour they will absorb, and knead
x the mixture into a soft dough. 1to11
it 'out on a board, sprinkle it with
flour, cut it into biscuit sizes, and
bake the cakes slowly until they are
brown on both sides. In Ireland,
where the cakes are called potato
fudge, they are usually eaten hot.
with butter. Sometimes they are fried
in fat.
Fig Pickles.—Three and one-half
pounds pulled llgs; five cups sugar,
Ono quart vinegar, one ounce stick
cinnamon, one ounce whole cloves.
Wash fie:: thoroughly and let stand
over night in water to cover. Do not
drain off this water. Add vinegar,
spices and sugar and let simmer gent-
ly until . figs are thoroughly clone
and syrup is a little thick. One-fourth
this anomer will serve six persons.
• Cranberry -Pear Pudding.—Place in
bottom of pudding dish slices of stale
sponge cake, On top of these lay
quartered canned pears. Fill dish
e little more than half full. Cover
with layer of cranberries sprinkled
with' sugar. Put in • oven and bake
until cranberries are tender and juice
has permeated' rest of ingredients.
Cover with meringue of stiffly beaten
whites of two eggs, sweetened with
two tablespoons powdered sugar.
Brown delicately in oven.
Loaf Cake. Two (nips granulated
sugar, one cup butter, four cups pa-
stry flour, six teaspoois baking pow-
der, qac cup milk, six eggs, one and
one-half teaspoons flavoring. Beat
sugar and butter to cream,, add egg
yolks well -beaten and any flavoring
• .desired. Sift together baking pow-
der and flout, and add half of it to
cake, alternately with mills, and re-
mainder alternately with egg whites
beaten _tiff. Bake in•lerge tube pan
in moderate oven for forty-five to
fifty minutes. Full amount makes
a:ce birthday cake., etc,
Orange Fritters.—Two large or-
azngee (sweet), 'one cup sugar, one-
half cup water, one cup flour, ole -
fourth teaspoon salt, three-quarters
cup milk, two tablespoons :sugar, two
eggs, one tablespoon melted butter,
one-fourth ;teaspoon vanilla. Divide
oranges into four sections' after peel-
ing slip outseeds and remove white'
skin. Conk rn ,yrrip made; of water]
earl one cup of .augar for, ten minutes,'
ili;tl e batter of other ingredients,
foldin ; in egg whites lost. Dip or-
ango sections in hatter and fry to
golden calor' iii"deep 'fat. Drain on
paper, dust with powdered sugar and
terve:
Potato Ceko:-One pound potatoes,
one-half pound flour, one teaspoonful
bnl.unr powder; two ounces butter,,
on_ hall' teasnoonful salt. The .po-
tatoea ;shonld be first boiled;
then pa—lad and meshed thoroughly,
sn that there are no -lumps; then melt
the britt:; and mixi it and the salt in-
to .lie p.itatoos. Sift the flour and
hal'ng nawtier together and add,'
kneed l.Mht•y, and turn out oa a
flan .d board, roll to abouton hall'
inch 1 1•'ck, cat into triangles and bake'
en 0 wad -greased griddle. The origin-,
l r cs.pc calls for mill: or cream; but
b1'' potatao !sere are i0 ' much
msec wi.tely and less floury the
elloye glVCS the best result. When
0111122:are cooked t;ell, split, but-
tc • end eerve very hot. If there are
1 ft over, they are delicious
ta 1211.
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Useful Heuts.
P it.,,,, i dip the hands in cold water
L:fsre ttkir
n Pastry;
1 1 1
P 1 i' r f Paris ra ri mixed with vine-
!'.
:enn ha v c 1 e 1 hl putty..
A gond cereal coffee is an exellent
Ih'n Ss for ;;r2 teheol children's "break-:
All sect that ; I ,i r 1112 kitchen
1,ban'cl he an ri r'.nd clarified.hy melt
Clothes that must be ironed in a
thorn time. must be sprinkled ioith
very hot water.
Alt-'ays use the oven On ironing day
for p, prri,ig dishes which require
cooling
Mew w ,
Porpin who wear off the heels of
their: shoes unevenly can grind them
down on a grindstone.
Hang wet curtains on the wooden
curtain poles as soon as washed and
they will dry gracefully.
Keeps tacks in glass jars or glass-
es. This saves opening boxes to find
the particular kind you want.
Mint will grow in water, like many
other plants, if left in a sunny win-
dow and given plenty of air.
To rembve , rust cover the stain
thickly with powdered alum and steam
ten minutes over boiling water.
Try to induce the children to eat
each at least one apple a day. It
will keep their systems in good con-
dition.
Hard boiled eggs chopped fine and
nixed with mustard with a little
cream and seasoning will make a de-
licious sandwich.
To keep ferns or other house plants.
fresh and green drop a little castor.'
oil at the roots, or milk. Both will
produce good results.
• Fly specked mirrors should be wash-
ed ,first with cold water, and then
polished with a chamois which has
been dipped in alcohol
To cleap a vinegar bottle put in
some potato peelings, fill with water,
arid allow to stand till the potato peel
ferments. Then wash.
It is a good idea to save, if pos-
sible, a definite. sum for furniture re-
placements. This applies especially
to the keeper of a new house.
I For nice dish rags, 'sew ttvo salt
bags together. They will last longer
than the ordinary rag of cheesecloth,
eta. Flour bags also make excellent
dusters.
When making muffins drop scones,
etc., dip the spoon in water or milk.
The batter will not stick to the spoon,
and the cake will be more even in size.
' Keep• a watchful eye on the Child-
ren's school lunches; if they haven
good, nourishing lunches they will be
better able to 'stand the strain of
school work.
These cold days, before hanging .out
the clothes, wipe the lines with a
cloth wrung out in solt water, it will
prevent the clothes from freezing to
the lines.
To prevent rugs from turning up on!
the side stick a piece of -heavy cloth;
about four inches wide on both sides
and on both, ends of carpet. Stitch'on ;:
wrong side.
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Tenderfoot's ' Wooing
By CLIVE PHILLIPPS WOLLEY'
.(Author of "Gold, Gold in Cariboo," Etc.)
CHAPTER Vh (eont'd.)
Yes, better; a good deal better,
Jima tried to;,break into the conver-
sation. •
"That's a bad racket, Boss, a;hout
those cattle thieves," he said, and his
own voice seemed hard and unneces-
sarily loud.. "They will he making a
hole in your pile this season."
"Mi's. Reit tells me that you found
a branded hicle in one of the Chilco-
ten's oldcamps.
e s p
"Found in ear enyways, but I'm
scared that that is not all. Davies'
murderer' is out again with Khelowna's
band. It means mischief."
"Whet ought we•to do about that?"
"If we want to stop it we've got to
catch some of the thieves and make
an example of them. You know wha
are if you let them got awa
with you,"
Then you would organize a posy
'and hunt them. It might be as wel
but could we leave the Indians to loo
ragged edges of the earth, and it
may even. be that for those who love
the England of their childhood, they
would find more of it 'in such distant
colonial homes than they would to -day
within the sound of Bow Bells.
Conditions change, but:memory is
faithful::'•
When he entered it that room was
almost too full of English memories
for :poor' Jim Combe. The women
weretired,
<, and a little rift had ap-'
peered within the lute which had tem-
porarily marred the harmony of their
friendship, ,and Anstruther, seeing
this, was busy charming them back to
their most sweet natural selves.
Unasked and without any preface,
he had seated himself down to the
at piano, and sometimes -playing, some -
y times singing softly to himself, he led
them from gay to grave, from Sulli-
e van to Beethoven, from "Little Yum -
1, Yum"' to "Douglas, tender and true,"
k but never once away from that holy
of holies, which the English call
y Home. •
r And as he played or sang, he talked
to his lady, not in• the foolish modern
phrases, but in the music of the mas-
tors, and the words of love's great
poets, until Jim, hating him the more,
the more he recognized his. mastery,
felt hope fading very far away.
'What a fool I have. been," thought
Jim. "I, see it all now. Doves' do not
mate with hawks, and what possible
use is my brute strength and wood-
craft against this man's magic."
Such skill as Jim had might light-
en the labors of a working'woman;
but the dainty thing upon whom he
had set his heart was'never meant
for the stress of hard living.
The voice of 'her own world ryas.
' calling to her, and of course she would
go back to it, and he could not blame
her; but how he hated the other fel-
�low.
"Thank you, Mr.' Anstruther," said
Mrs. Rolt, at last,. as he paused for a
moment. "You have been to us what
David was to Saul,'I think But we
must not make you do all the work.
Won't you give us one song, Jim?
Sing Somebody's a-callin'." Mr. An-
struther has carried us all off to Eng-
land, I think, and T want somebody to
call me home again.
Iler hand was lying on the little
• Japanese table by the side of her
chair, and in the firelight the Boss's
great fist closed over it.
He appreciated his mate's loyalty to
himself and his chosen profession.
Before the advent of Mr, Anstruther,
Jim had whiled away many a long
'evening for the ranch folk with his
mellow baritone, untrained it is true
but full and sweet as a thrush's voice,
so that he could hardly refuse Mrs.
Rolt's request.
"The herds are gathered in from plain
and hill.
Whd's that a-callin'?
The boys are sleeping and the ranch
is still,
Who's that a-callin' so sweet?"
he sang, and the old days came back
to him. In spite of himself Kitty's
face softened, and beneath her closed
lids she saw the pictures in which the
stranger had no part.
"Yes, that is pretty," said Anstru-
ther critically, when the song had
come to a close, "especially the air and
that one verse, but the rest of it is
but weak isn't it? It seems to me
that fellows don't think the words
matter nowadays,"
"Especially in'your favorite comic
operas. There is not much poetry
about the 'Colonel on his little tin
gee -gee,' or your 'Singularly deep
young man,' is there?"asked Mrs.
Bolt.
"I did not think that people went
to the comic operas for poetry?"
"Those seem to be about the only
things they do go to."
' "Perhaps, and yet you know we
have some songs in the Old Country
which hardly need the music to make
them beautiful."
"Old songs?"
Yes, and the modern songs, too. Is
there no dignity in this?" and rising,
he went again to the piano and sang
Pollock's noble song, in which a mod-
ern has for once caught the chivalrous
spirit of the past, •
"It is not mine to sing the stately
race Y
grace,
The great soul betuning in my lady's
after the ranch for a week."
"Might as well. The work is prett
well forward, and Mr. Anstruthe
could look after the ladies."
"What do you say to, that Kitty?"
asked the Boss.
"Certainly, if Mr. Anstruther's
whole soul is not in the cattle."
Anstruther muttered something in
his low drawling voice which the oth-
ers did not catch, but Kitty's answer
was sufficiently audible.
"Oh," she laughed, "that is not man-
ly, Mr. Anstruther. It's cattle first
and cattle all the time with the men."
"Cattle are naturally rather impor-
tant on a ranch,, my dear," put in
Mrs. Rolt. "We Western people have
to work for our daily bread, and that
is what the cattle mean to us."
"Some people work in England," re-
torted Kitty, tossing her pretty head,
"but they' don't bring their work to all
their meals."
It was as near a slap in the -face as
Mrs. Rolt had ever received at her
own table, and for a moment an un-
comfortable silence fell' upon them all
but
Anstruthersavedthe situation.
"I don't think we should have done
well on the prairie to -night, Mrs. Rolt.
Do you hear how the wind is get-
ting up?"
It needed no training of ears to
hear it.
For a spell thele would be silence
or only thick whispering round the
corners of the old house, and then an
angry shaking of every casement in
the building as if some strong man
was trying to find a place to make
{an entry.
Again there would be a pause, fol-
lowed by a `long wailing cry, and the
grinding and shrieking of the thousand
branches of the pines around the
house, while again would come that
wrenching and straining at the case-
ments. -
It's going to be an early winter,"
said Jim, "I guess that's why all the
cattle are coming in."
No one heard her say anything, but
Kitty's mutinous little face 'could
speak without' words.
"Let us have some music," said Rolt
rising and opening the door for the
ladies. "It is stormy outside, and I
fancy you ladies want your nerves
soothing after thlit hard ride."
The two went out, and when they
had gone the Boss stood pulling his
ong mustache in a way he had when
he was annoyed. Then he went over
to Jim and laid his hand kindly on his
shoulder,
"Do you really think that we ought
to ao out."
HOW MINERS SWEEP THE SEAS.
A Skipper. Tells of Trouble in the
North Sea.
A thrilling story of a remarkable I
escape from destruction by a sub-
marine mine is told by an East Coast
skipper who for months past has
been engaged in the dangerous work
of nine sweeping, Setting sail from
a port, he says: "Two days later we
reached the mine field which had
been sown in that region. We had 1
not been there five minutes before we I
found a inine and disposed of it. Each
day our work progressed, and we
found mora and snore, and then the
following remarkable incident oc-
curred: While. still sweeping I
thought there must be something
wrong:with my sweeping, gear, so :I
decided to hani the sweep in. We
were getting the 'lite' up, when I
saw anotlio' mine lying right on top
of the `(cite' where it had become b.come en-
tangled ,in the gear. It ryas a mine, I
too, and I shouted to the men to stop a
the w'inc'h, but before I +
"I do, Sure."
"And you think that it is safe to
cave Anstruther only with the wo-
men." He spoke in a low tone, and he
seemed to be asking more than his
vords implied.
"That's his place, sir."
"I don't know so Much about that.
Anstruther is very much of a man if
he does carry a high polish.' But do
you wish it to be so?"
Jim looked squarely in the face and
understood him.
"Yea, Boss, I think so."
The Boss threw his cigarette into
the fire -place. He, too, had his
'reams; and understood.
"Al'l right, then, have it your own
way. Tell the Hien quietly what you
mean to do. You can trust them all,
I suppose."
"Every last mother's sols of Mimi."
"All right, then. Of course I shall
one with you." -
Jim opened his mouth to protest.
"Aly cattle, Jim," was allthat was
roecled,to stop him. "When you have
old thorn, corse into the dra wing- l
oom; the wife wants you."
It was a "one man's show," to. Jiur's
,incl, when he did enter that dainty
oom in which Mrs Rolt had gathered
ound hes. all her treasures, ar room
hnost startlingly in contrast to the
est of the house and •its surround-
ngs r
oneof those r
.00ms winch
speak
1
o� plainly of that past p y ] s Which many
up -country .y people have left behind
tem.
It was not only the phonographs,:
reined and otherwise, with which the
oom was littered, which called' to you,
or: the two or three exquisite land -
capes of Old Country scenery; not
van the little cabinet with its collec-
an of miniatures, Rolts and Vernons,
ewigged and uniformed, or patched
nd ,powdered, after the various fa -
lions 'of
a-lions'of their' sex kind of the days ii,
which they had' lived; not these, nor
yen the great bowls of flowers which
t was Mary Rolt's labor of love to
Elise' with infinite trouble in her
Teen house in spite of the elements;
ether Was/it the pervading atmos -
hero of the room, the visible expres-
on of a loyal loving. heart which,
Mist it w.oald tolerate no word
gainst the new house, sweetened all
rings with its memories of the old.
It has been the work"of such women
s Mr's. Roll to keep alive the spirit
f England on the wildest and most
any_
thing to prevent it the mine got jam-
medbetwween the 'kite' and the ship's
aide
A tremendous explosion followed
dir_tc1y, but, .luckily, the mine
wee still practically below water. A c
tremendous column of water rose to
a height of 150 feet, and great chunks
of the steel mine flew all; ways, but i
no one wilestruck or hurt. A jagged t
portion weighing 101 pounds camefly- r
ing through the windows of the
Wheelhouse,and d i
a n after missing me by' n
a few inches fell on the floor near my r
feet. Save for some minor injuries r
Ecom t.hc shattered glees, I was un- 0
Inuit. The r�reatest excitement was r
mimed
by,.
the immense en.e col ,mi
t of i
water,
e c n h simply colla
t i y psecl on out" y
deck. washer five Washing va of the ore., over -
k t
hon d Fortin -lately, however, my tl
partner's boat with wham I load been
st eephig wee able to pick the men f
up, Outwardly my &eft appeared nn- r
damaged, .ager!, but tons of water had fill n
ed. Thinking the ship was ,inking,
all the hands except n wood' and, the e
sub -lieutenant hurriedly left in the 11
small: boat, which was Undamaged. li
We .proceeded to examine the vessel, a.
and, satisfied there was no leakage at sl
all,signalled to the crew to.return, n
which they did.' We were' then taken
e
i
in tow, and reached port next day.
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But mine it is to follow in her train,
Do her behests in pleasure or in pain,
Burn at her altar lo've's sweet frank-
ineense,
And worship her with 'distant sever-
ence."
Nature had been kind to Frank An-
struther There was no startling
beauty in his face, but he had in an
altcgeth.er 'uncorumon degree that
highly -bred grace, svr
thout which eo
man should dare to sing those courtly
words.h ' ,
W LT !tialell
s loses even
g e
Mrs. holt could not 'help admitting,
"Yes, that is !zest,"
Whetevet ditty thought, it was left 1
unsaid, but there was no :reassurance.
for Jim Combe in the cold bow with
which she bade him good -night,.
It was "another victory for the Old
Country!'
Now a Sergeant
SL!AVIliA TO311T ryi.
Seventeen-year-olti girl who has
(served for two years as a private in
;Serbia's army and Inas been /woman-
ledr-
ed to :sergeant for heroic conduct.
MOTHER'S WiSH GRATIFIED.
•
The King Gets Leave of Absence for
a Corporal.
The King's great kindness towards
his soldiers and sympathy for • the;
relatives has long been known, and
more than once has he intervened to
secure, in an urgent case, leave foi
"Tommy" to visit his loved ones
at home.
An incident of this character has
just' come to light. It concerns a sol-
dier who was refused leave to visit
his' dying mother, a Mrs. Thuey, who
lives in Forest Gate, London.
She has four sons, all of them' in
the army, and Cecil, who is a corporal
in the 2nd East Anglican Brigade, R.
F.A., has been in Prance for three
months. Recently the widow was seiz-
ed with a dangerous illness, and crav-
ed for a sight of her boy Cecil.
Her daughter wrote, urging him to
get leave and come home at once if
he wanted to see his mother alive.
The corporal presented the communi-
cation to his captain, who told him
there was no chance of leave, as he
could not be spared.
The poor soldier wrote back to his
sister (Mrs. Fiford by name) telling
her that he could not get home to see
his mother, as all leave had been
stopped. The sister then telegraphed
to his captain, but he only replied,
"Sorry, he cannot be spared."
All this time' the poor, stricken mo-
ther' was calling for her boy, and in
desperation Mrs. Fiford decided to
appeal Ile the King. Ring George,
who has always been interested in
such genuine cases, and willing to
help, approached the War Office, with
the result that leave was granted to
the corporal
A letter from the King was receiv-
ed by Mrs.- Fiford, and also a com-
munication from the War Office which
ran:—
Madame—In
an:
Madam, -In reply to your petition
to' the King, which has been forward-
ed to this Department, I am command-
ed by the Army Council to acquaint
you that a telegram has been sent to
the military authorities overseas ask-
ing that leave may be granted to your
brother, Corporal C. Thuey, as an ex-
ceptional case.
I am, your obedient servant,
B. B. CIJBITT.
Thus it happened that ono night
when the young corporal was Sitting
brooding on a bale of hay, his eyes
sad, and aux anxious expression on his
face as he. wondered if he would over
see his sick mother again, so orderly
shouted in his ear
"Cor weal Thuey, t captain 1 ey, he c 1 tans wants
to see you."
In hot haste Thuey went to the of-
ficer, who told him to saddle up at
once and a guide would take him
ten milds across country to a station,
where he would catch a coast -bound
train and get hone.
In a few minutes he was.in the sad-
dle and dashin • to catch his train.
ft
Without loss of timd he was his
at ,
mothers bedside cheer in • h
g her up,
and tenderly brushing aside her tears
of joy, The sight of her loved boy
nod a wonderful effect on the old lady,
who, ,!though stilt very ill, is ex
pected to recover.
The young corporal is ba.ek at the
front, but his howl is lighter, for he
has seen his old mother, and he knows.
she is on the road to good health
again'
Docision Deferred,
r.red
"How are you going toe like your
new neighbors?"
"Can't tell. I happened to be out
when their furniture was moved in."
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SOLDIERS INTHE
BAR COMPARED
CHARACTERISTIC POINTS OF
THE WARRIORS.
French, German, Russian, British
and Belgian Armies
at the Front.
"Fine uniforms no battles win,
Success turns on hearts within!"
We are reading these days of vast -
armies of men facing each other on
the field of battle like mighty ma-
chines. Yet we really know very lit-
tle about those armies. Our knowl-
edge; in most cases, is merely mathe-
matical, and we say that one hundred
thousand Germans equal one hun-
dred thousand Frenchmen, because we
give no thought bo the individuality
of the soldiers themselves, says Lon-
don Answers.
The French soldier is probably the
most enthusiastic fighter on either
side. His enthusiasm, always great,
could not be more pronouncedly fired
than when lie 'is up in arms against
a German foe. The years 1870 and
1871 aro branded on his memory,
forming a path of his fighting kit.
Nevertheless, his .battling carries
very little of spite in it, for he is
cheerful, almost absurdly confident,
and his smile is constant.
Matters That .Count.
These things counb. They exist
apart from mere numbers. It is
said of the German, on the other hand,
that the oppressive military system
has crushed a good deal of his indi-
viduality out of him.
r Undoubtedly, the early stages of
the Great War have suggested this.
The Prussian Thomas Atkins, with
r the eye of the Imperial Eagle ever
upon him, marches in step through
sheer necessity rather than sheer joy.
He is somewhat sullen, because he is
shown such small respect by"those
above him. For this reason, too, he
lacks initiative in emergency, in
jusb the same way that a machine, un-
aided by human intelligehce; will be
helpless if an important wheel breaks,
a nut slips, or any vital part goes
wrong.
Discipline is the watchword of the
German Army. It is a fine wateh-
word, but it should be tempered with
a judicious amount of initiative when
accidents occur.
Russian Prowess.
(To be Cottimeed).
Got Most Out of the Garden.
A man of cos '
lei
r tt •
s able wealth, .and
very conscientious as we'll, was obliged
to d'ismies his gairclener for dishones-
ty. As the gardener had a wife and
family dependent upon him, however,
the rich mien'gave him a "character"
and framed it in this way:—"I here-
by certify that John Henry Dodge
has been in my employ as a gardener
for three years, and during that time
he has got more out of the garden
than any other man I 'have ever em
p'loyed."
Freshly Defined.
"What's the honeymoon, pa 1"
"The honeymoon, my son, is the
only, period, in a man's life during'
which he considers it funny to come,
home and find that his clear wife,
hasn't diaper ready On time."
In Russia much the same system
applies, though with two important
differences. The average Russian
soldier has been said, rightly or
I wrongly, to be less efficient, as a ma-
chine, than the German; he this as
it may, he certainly possesses more
individual fire. One Cossack, named
Kriutchkof, killed eleven Germans
single-handed, receiving sixteen
wounds himself. This speaks highly
of Russian prowess, which has been
further groved by the'terrific victories
which have been achieved by our
Eastern allies. There is something
Mysterious about the Russian fighter,
as there is also about the actual num-
ber of fighters in the full Russian
force. Nine millions is the highest
figure quoted. Probably about seven
•millions would be nearer the mark.
Another point about the Russian
soldier is his inherent hatred of the
German. An authority lately said,
"How great is the hatred of Germany
in Russia only a Russian can under-
stand." This is a powerful driving,.
force to the Russians as they pour
over the eastern borders of Germany,
towards Berlin.
Are the Champions.
We are so close bo cur own British
soldier that there is not much about
him we do not know. He has every-
thing in his favor. Man for man, he
is probably .more than a match for
any other soldier in the field. He is
solid. And he is fighting to -clay the
very kind of fight that his heart)
revels in—he is fighting for somebody
else's honor as well as his own. '
Ruskin expressed the hope that!
Great Britain would never again go'
war. "But m
to'
she does go," he saidt
"I would like her to champion an-'
other's quarrel." This: is precisely!
what she has done.
Tommy -Atkins is smart. He is al
terror, boo. He has glorious tradi.1
tions to uphold, and -we need not; �+
question whether he will uphold theml 1
now to the last drop of blood. He isl
always courteous -as generous in vic-'
tory as he is dogged when his back!
is to the wall.
Belgium has already revealed its'
clean and shining inner- core. The
Belgian soldier stands for justice, and
his pluck le as great asour own. It
is good to feel that the ideals of
peace and civilization do not reduce)
one's courage in warfare. 'The plucky'
little Belgian is all the more feared
by his foe because he is fighting the
forces which threaten his peaceful
pastures.
THE CZAR'S LITTLE WAR.
Fascinating Episodes on the Northern
Front.
When the history of Russian guer-
rilla warfare on the northern front
during the last winter is written it
will prove a fascinating and remark-
able story. Although little has
appeared about it in the press, it has
accomplished some important results,
and the General Staff has frequently
commended it in the highest terms.
The people speak of it as "our little
war."
Through the long winter months,
when the regular operations are im-
possible, -the Russians have kept at
this guerilla activity with the idea of
wearing down the Germans and un-
dermining their morale.
Late last autumn schemes for the
conduct of guerrilla warfare were in-
vited from the army, while it was
still engaged in the long and steady
withdrawal before the German inva-
sion. Every smart young officer has-
tened to draw"up his ideas of the best
means of wearing down the enemy.
The plan finally adopted was one pro-
posed by a young cavalry officer. b•Iis
scheme encouraged officers and men
to volunteer for this dangerous ser-
vice by by assuring' them of promo-
tion, honors and money rewards, care
being taken to frame the conditions
so that only the best men of any rank
had a chance of getting into the new
branch of service. One of the condi-
tions was that nothing whatever was
to be published of the exploits of
those chosen; and the only occasion
when this rale has been broken was
when the author of the scheme cap-
tured two German generals and their
whole staff and escorts in the Pinsk
marshlands.
The work has been going on with- .
out intermission throughout the win-
ter over the whole northern front.
The enemy has never known a quiet
night anywhere within 50 miles of
his front trenches, and in some sec-
tions this feeling of threatened se-
curity was made to extend a hundred
miles into the territory occupied by
the Germans. Storehouses were fired,
ammunition trains exploded trains
derailed, bridges dynamited, tele-
graph wires cut, officers arid di oC;h
riders waylaid, villages filled wiex-
hausted sleeping men were attacked
or set on fire—this was the kind of
exploit that the Russian guerrillas
kept up continuously. Its nearreet
counterpart is found in t''1e guerrilla
activity which so harassed the 001 th.
ern troops during t'he American Civil
War, except that the Russian shrine
has been far more complete.
The Germans at firs1 sought a
remedy in reprisals upon the scanty
remaining populstior of the ocempi 11
districts, but' often a short time ll:y
began to realize that nisi Wil0 a leis -
take, as it only added to the r:asnbers
of their intangible foes,
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